| Show I PILGRIMAGE OF THE TH UTAH AH PIONEERS SIXTY tEARS tEAR AGO co TODAY iY JULY 23 3 1817 I John Jolla Pack and aud Joseph Mat wore were dispatched a ale as messen messengers I gers ere from rom the tho main pioneer Cr camp In InI I tho valley to the tho rear roar camps to 10 intermit I Frost Pr st Young und and tho the persons who vitro vero with him about the progress of ot the tho companies 1 and of ot their discoveries anti and explorations The Tho mes messengers mc a n long letter dictated OY ny to Young rho Tho camp commenced to move about 7 I clock 0 a I m an and took the tho back track for tor about a n mile milo then they the turned northward arid and traveled about two miles to u it L small grove of ot cottonwood trees ee on the tue banks of ot II n beautiful stream ot of water skirted on oli both hoth sides side with whit willows and lilt shrubs This Title was Wila City creole creek and the tho selected hero by b the tho pioneers for tor a IL more moro permanent camping ground and a farm tarl farmIs tarlIs far farIs Is now nD n a part of ot the tho Eighth waitt wahl Salt Lake City near the spat spot where thA th City and County building stands Title This camping ground was according a to William Claytons s deduction 1073 miles from Win Winter tor Quartets the tho way tint pioneers lied had traveled Se tho tb pioneers had traveled miles nilles from Winter Quarters to the Junction of or North und South Platt l t thence miles to Fort John Jolla Fort Fult Laramie I thence 3 7 miles to Fort Bridger antI and thence 11 miles to tho the camp on City CILY creek About a m in the pioneers were called coIled together r on thu new camping ground und and after I a few tow Introductory ctol remarks by lIy Orson Pratt ho hC offered altered up prayer and thanksgiving In behalf of o othe the tho pioneers all of ot Whom hom had been bl n so Sl wonderfully preserved on the Journey from tile tha MissourI river Ilver to the thu valley and h tIC dedicated the tho camp multi and tho laud land unto which they tiie had hail como come to tho the Lord Imploring Ills 1118 blessings up upon upon upon on their labors and nil that pertained unto them Tho The meeting was then ad addressed addressed dressed by bt II Willard Richards nl hards and Orson Pratt after Itter which various committees nero ero appointed to attend to different branches of ot business preparatory to putting in crops Thus Roundy Seth Beth Tuft Stephen Robert Crow and Ind Albert Alhert were appointed n t committee to look 10 k out a 11 place for lor plant plantIng Ing lag potatoes corn beans b t They rhe immediately left leit t tb meeting m l 1 to lo their task Charles A liar Iran per pen Charles Shunt Shumway way and am Elijah New Newman Newman man mall were appointed a 11 committee to plows and drags and to call to hell heir assistance what men they wanted wonted Henson Walker sr Wm Win Wadsworth and John Jolla Brown were appointed n a commit committee tee tea to superintend the tile moving and the tho rigging of scythes the Stephen Mark Manic Markham ham bait was appointed to attend to tint the tennIs and to see so that fresh Cresh teams were hitched up every ten few hours It was also decided by b vota yoto that every nina man should plant his Itis own potatoes and seeds eeds ns its ho he pleased Almon Williams was by vote appointed to oversee oversea the making ot a It coal coat pit lilt Dr Richards ad nil advised that no rio man should leave I ae the he camp before he lie had attended to lilt his seeds needs and put them In tho time ground Ceo Oeo A Smith that the themen themen themen men should gather Jather out the tho dead tint tim timber her ber and leave tho live timber stand standing lag ing hI and to use una as OJ little wood as ns pos for tor cooking About A 1130 a ft m am the committee on In planting reported that they the had staked slatted td oft off it 11 v co of oC line lino ground W by b 30 20 O for Jr potatoes also alpo n a 1 suitable place for roc beans benn corn cornand cornand and buckwheat where the sell was WM fertile t consisting of n a friable trio hie loam 1011 with line fine gravel At 12 clork noon neon or about two hours hourI after neter the arrival ot of the tho pioneers on their new now camp campground ground on in the banks ot of City creek plowing was al commenced a n short chart ills dis distance lp tance northeast of the camp plows having been b en rigged for that pur pUI purpose purpose pose Thomas Bullock writes that nt at 12 1 the this first furrow was WM turned by Capt Tafts company com pall but hut odds adds that plow pI 0 broke Jl lie He however does doos not mention any an other From other however wo we learn Itar that Wm Carter arter Goo W Brown Drown Sha Roundy took part in Ill plow plowIng inn Ing tho tito first furrows furroW ever made by white men taco in tho the valley alley of ot the tile Great SnIt Salt Lake Inke Tithe This plowing was dorm dono where Main Strict Street East Temple street now Intersects First South street treel or directly In lm front ot or tho the present site of drug aru store The Tho soil was ex exceedingly e C dry and several plows plow wern werA I broken during time the day but three plows I and ono ene harrow were kept nt lit work worle most ot of the afternoon At 2 p 1 m tn some somo ol or tho the men inca who had hn been beci appointed ton for that purpose com cant commenced 1 to build bullet a n dam across ncr ss City creek in order to convoy the water front from that stream on to tho the land hind Inn 1 which was wal bong plowed After soaking tho the Bround the th plowing was comparatively easy cas At Ni 13 2 I o lok p II I in to time the thor ther thermometer the nt at JS D es esAt At 4 come comae of at the tho men mont commenced mowing clawing grass preparing for a n turnip patch Towards the tho camp ramp was wall vie vis js by b n a I thunder shower from tim west not flot quite enough rain fell tell to tolay lay the tho dust The rhe two t messengers John J Pack and Joseph Matthews who hall had been dispatched In Ii the tho morn mornIng mornIn tag Ing In returned bringing word that the tho remainder of or Q the time wagons belonging to the tue pioneer company only a n few tew miles distant and an would arrive the time next day clU Prest Youngs tear Company left their encampment ellea on East canyon Canon creek ct and crossed tho the Pig Big mountain When on Its summit tho the president di directed Elder Willard Woodruff In whoso who he ho was wn nf lying sick to turn It around so that ho hl could have bno havea a t view ew from frohm that point of a portion of ot 0 I ISalt Salt Rait Lake Uk valley Tit The spirit of figi j rested upon him hovered over t th lii valley ulle and ho felt that th rb wag th tb nIece who whom the tho saints would uld pro protection j anil auth safety Front From tho the summit of this mountain they tho traveled tx 11 Is 1 stifles miles when holl they th came to tn ti n It beautiful spring In n it small entaIl birch grave they th for tor tho tim night Irto they 1 mot met Elders John Pack find Joseph from the tho advance who reported that the Uio men ahead I hill had explored thu the Great Grent Salt Lako ko val valley ley 10 an all far aa ns possible and made cholM chol of ot a 10 pot spot to put In crops |
